4.9 is now available

[Bob Willcox]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:58:03PM -0800, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> Bob Willcox wrote:
> >Seems that they should be able to create the floppy disks and boot from
> >them still. Not ideal, but should work.
> 
> Floppies are an endangered species. At work we just bought a large 
> number (thousands) of new machines and not a single one came with a 
> floppy drive. Now that I think of it, neither of my home machines has a 
> floppy either. Although I do have one drive sitting on the shelf, just 
> in case.

Well, considering how cheap they are, I always include a floppy drive
in my systems for the same reason. Though I must admit that I find that
I have to boot MSDOS to update MB BIOSes more often than anything with
them.  :-)

Bob

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